Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

Graham Elliot

I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

James Cromwell

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

David Nathan

I think the fact that they didn't attain the level of success of solo artists probably has something to do with it as well. They may have had some impact, but none are around today. They weren't able to sustain it.

Daniel Perez

There is no connection between the artists who performed at the event and ordinary, run-of-the-mill graffiti arrests.

Rascal Flatts

To get all the country music artists in one place at one time (means) you also can get autographs and pictures if you want. It's awesome, because all the artists and all the fans are right there together, which never happens otherwise during the year.

Michael Williams

Today black artists ... are doing it for themselves. It really has gotten better.

Zach Braff

It has a really smart, irreverent look at celebrity and making fun of people who get famous for really odd things,

Salim Khan

He has been punished because of his celebrity status.

Tina Knowles

Our line is going to be different from other celebrity lines in that we are really designing it.

Robert Thompson

In print media, the only one that's a growth industry is the celebrity magazines.

Martin Sheen

I?m just not qualified. You?re mistaking celebrity for credibility.

Charlize Theron

The celebrity status in Hollywood has gotten really out of control,

Linda Carroll

I'm not responding to those things. What is there to respond to? She said, 'Well, my mother made me live in a chicken shed. And we lived in tepees on a commune.' . . . I don't want to enter into (a) 'Jerry Springer' celebrity thing. I just find it degrading.

M. Thompson

The equity of our celebrities now exceeds the equity of the media that gave them status in the first place. Film, television and radio are now so fragmented that the one thing we all share is the celebrities themselves. Celebrity has become the one common denominator.

Michael Friedman

A lot of kids wish to meet a certain celebrity or go somewhere special for vacation. When I was in the hospital so much, I realized how lucky I was to have my videogames and other things that made my visits go by more quickly. There's a lot of down time, and if you don't have something to focus on, it can really get hard.

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

Douglas Jerrold

Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the second glass.

Jacques Chirac

Those who want to sow violence of fear, they will be arrested, judged and punished,

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Dave Williams

I want to show my new manager I can pitch and show my new teammates I can pitch. That's what I'm worried about, just showing them I can win games. Everything else is really minor.

Ken Williams

Do I need a new manager or not?

Scott Parker

The manager has taken all the flak, he has been protecting us, that's just the sort of person he is.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Debbie Breen

He thinks he's the manager of the toy department.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Tom Glavine

That's the manager's call. It's always the manager's call. You do what the manager tells you to do.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Tuff

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Liz Phair

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

Monica Keena

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Tori Kelly

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Laurie Geigel

We don't know if we're going to be performing on a stage or a classroom.

Wayne Dyer

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

Randy Jackson

You were right where you were supposed to be, singing the right song that could be on the radio right now.

Sean Hannity

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

Shelby Lynne

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

Marc Maron

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

Thomas A. Edison

The radio craze will die out in time.

Linda Ellerbee

The new national campfire - radio.

Elvis Presley

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

Elaine Paige

Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Milan Kundera

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Gedde Watanabe

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Haruki Murakami

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

John C. Maxwell

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

Elaine Stritch

If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Gordon Ramsay

I like finding talent. That's what really turns me on, I suppose.